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Provided for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from U.S. military.
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Forced sterilization of people with disabilities was not a violation of their constitutional rights.
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- federally funded old-age benefits and funds to states for assistance to blind individuals and disabled children.
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Harry Truman signed PL-176 creating this event,
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-Ages 50-64
-Benifits extended to dependents of the disabled in 1958 -
Formula grant for vocational rehabilitation, supported employment, independent living, and client assistance by the Rehabilitation Services Administration.
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Equal access to public education
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People Cannot be institutionalized against their will unless they are deemed a danger to themselves or others.
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All polling places must be handicap accessible
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School authorities cannot expel or suspend or otherwise move disabled children from the setting agreed upon in the child’s Individualized Education Program (IEP) without being duely processed.
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-Gave similar protection to disabled americans as one would recieved based on race sex color etc..
-Gave provisions for employment (title I), government services and activities (title II) and publice accomodations (title III) -
Revision of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act
-Focused on parents of the disabled child
-Individualized cirriculum -
Whether Title II of ADA covers state prisons and prisoners.
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Is HIV considered a disability under the ADA?
Ruling: Yes, because of the definition of A disability, HIV is considered an impairment from the moment of infection -
Whether, in a lawsuit brought by two job applicants with severe nearsightedness (myopia) to challenge an airline's minimum vision requirement for global pilots, corrective and mitigating measures should be considered in determining whether an individual is disabled under ADA, and whether the applicants had stated a valid claim that the airline regarded them as disabled.
-Ruling: that mitigating measures should be considered when determining whether a disability exists. -
Does a disabled person entering the competition have protection under title III and can they use a golf cart while all able bodied people have to walk?
Ruling: The golf cart wouldn't give Mr. Martin a competitive advantage so he should be allowed to have one,and he is protected under title III -
whether the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulation that allows employers to refuse to hire applicants because their performance on the job would endanger their health due to a disability is permitted under the ADA.
Ruling: Court upheld the EEOC threat-to-self provision.
